Trust Region Policy Optimization
TRPO is an optimization algorithm in reinforcement learning which uses gradient descent. TRPO builds an algorithm that is stable and guarantees monotonic improvement. "This algorithm is similar to natural policy gradient methods and is effective for optimizing large nonlinear policies such as neural networks"
TRPO has better performance than the vanilla policy gradients as the length of the step size is easily defined. Additionally, it takes advantage of using old policies sampled distributions for optimizing new ones.
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